East coast gas shortage

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:USA! USA!

US investigators have recovered millions of dollars in cryptocurrency paid in ransom to hackers whose attack prompted the shutdown of the key East Coast pipeline last month

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/07/politics/colonial-pipeline-ransomware-recovered/index.html

This is what happens when we put the smack down on Russia.

Trump would have just let them keep the money.

Booyah. I hope the team that hit them back is getting well staffed, resourced and funded.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:USA! USA!

US investigators have recovered millions of dollars in cryptocurrency paid in ransom to hackers whose attack prompted the shutdown of the key East Coast pipeline last month

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/07/politics/colonial-pipeline-ransomware-recovered/index.html

Do we have a working quantum computer someplace? Hope so, that'd be awesome!

It was much simpler. The bitcoin account was held in the US.

Those dastardly Russians...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:USA! USA!

US investigators have recovered millions of dollars in cryptocurrency paid in ransom to hackers whose attack prompted the shutdown of the key East Coast pipeline last month

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/07/politics/colonial-pipeline-ransomware-recovered/index.html

This is what happens when we put the smack down on Russia.

Trump would have just let them keep the money.

Half the internet is down this morning. Some smack down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:USA! USA!

US investigators have recovered millions of dollars in cryptocurrency paid in ransom to hackers whose attack prompted the shutdown of the key East Coast pipeline last month

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/07/politics/colonial-pipeline-ransomware-recovered/index.html

This is what happens when we put the smack down on Russia.

Trump would have just let them keep the money.

Half the internet is down this morning. Some smack down.

Problem fixed. https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/finiancial-times-new-york-times-bloomberg-news-websites-down-2021-06-08/

[Anonymous]

So basically, the Koch owned pipeline has underinvested in both manpower and technology, paid a Russian hacker an extortion, without consulting the US government and still, its system has no human redundancies and is powered by Windows95.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

So basically, the Koch owned pipeline has underinvested in both manpower and technology, paid a Russian hacker an extortion, without consulting the US government and still, its system has no human redundancies and is powered by Windows95.

Oh good. Glad to know our critical infrastructure is in good hands.